Movies Like The Second Woman
If you liked The Second Woman (1950), a drama and mystery movie directed by James V. Kern, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also mysteryLeona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
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A Wife's Nightmare (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mysteryLiz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaWhen architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.
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Sleep, My Love (1948)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and dramaA woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also mysteryWhen heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition…
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The Woman on the Beach (1947)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaA sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.
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The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and mysteryConcentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
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Citizen Kane (1941)
★ 8/10Also mystery and dramaNewspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life…
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The Red House (1947)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and dramaAn old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaWhen their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
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Cast Away (2000)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaChuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor…
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
★ 8.3/10Also dramaA hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Fearless (1993)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAfter surviving a plane crash that kills many others, Max Klein develops a sense of invulnerability, leading to radical, compulsive actions. Can a psychologist and a fellow guilt-ridden survivor bring him down to earth?
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The Dark Corner (1946)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaEx-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in…
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A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also mystery and dramaAfter being forced into early retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha's Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he's drawn back into crime solving.
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Earthquake (1974)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaVarious interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
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The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and mysteryA three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
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Whirlpool (1950)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaThe wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her…
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Lady in the Lake (1946)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryPrivate eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to…
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Laura (1944)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and mysteryA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.